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A lot has happened since we revealed that Psion has counter-sued Intel...
The Save the Netbooks campaign has just secured court documents (PDF) filed Friday by Psion in response to Intel's suit against them in which they systematically deny Intel's claims against them and countersue on the basis of:Trademark Infringement Under The Lanham ActUnfair Competition Under The...
Psion, via their de facto link to the blogosphere, jkOnTheRun, have responded to the Dell and Intel filings. Surprisingly they claim that "although manufacture has been discontinued, sales in the US and EU have not"...
The Public AdWords complaint filed with Google has finally been rejected: Please note that we received a complaint from the trademark owner of NETBOOK...
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Source: www.savethenetbooks.com
Canadian firm Psion Teklogix is pushing forward with a plan (PDF) to hijack the netbook industry using registered trademarks (like this one) that experts believe to be unenforceable.
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Save the Netbooks Yes but if the people decide they be called "netbooks" but the courts decide the only company able to sell "netbooks" is Psion then we have an obvious problem (only the exact opposite of what trademarks are intended for - rather than being confused into buying from *another* seller they'll be confused into buying from the legitimate owner!?!?!)
A handful of brits may be ready to start the "Save Psion from Save the Netbooks" campaign if this afternoon's antics over at Wikipedia are any indication...
Who'd have guessed that the very same day we registered the domain to launch the "Save the Netbooks" campaign (16 February 2009), the Courthouse News Service broke the story that Intel had filed against Psion in the district court of Northern California: Intel Wants 'Netbook' Trademark Canceled SAN...
Mission Three is simply to take advantage of Psion's amnesty for bloggers and journalists by using the term "netbook": Relentlessly Gratuitously and Generically (that is, all lower case, describing a class of laptops) Thanks to Gizmodo Australia for the incentive...
This all started back on 23 December 2008 with Netbook enthusiast web sites getting C & D using term “netbook”. This obviously caused quite some angst and a bunch of angry bloggers vented about their dissatisfaction with Psion which resulted in a fair bit of media attention. Ps...
There's a number of things that Psion could have done to avoid losing the "netbook" trademark. For a start, trademarks relate to a specific class of goods or services. The "netbook" mark #75215401 is just for "laptop computers", as in the devices themselves...
Now that it is abundantly clear that Psion Teklogix' trademark is a toothless tiger we have [re]submitted a public complaint with a view to having the AdWords ban lifted for everyone else. You're welcome to forward it to ads-trademarks@google.com with your own comments if you like...
It's interesting to read David Hughes' heartfelt opinion on Psion and the netBook Trademark (which he declares "spurious")...
There's been a lot of unnecessary discussion about potential alternatives to the term "netbook" but one of the most palatable alternatives (which is surprisingly rarely mentioned) is "WEBBOOK"...
